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UNITED STATES v. STATE OF MISSOURI

Nos. 75-1051, 75-1064 and 75-1073.

515 F.2d 1365 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE OF MISSOURI et al., Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BERKELEY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. KINLOCH SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FERGUSON REORGANIZED SCHOOL DISTRICT R II et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 14, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Michenfelder, Jr., Clayton, Mo., made argument for Berkeley.

Marvin S. Wood, Clayton, Mo., made argument for Kinloch.

Norman C. Parker, St. Louis, Mo., made argument for Ferguson-Florissant.

Daniel F. Rinzel, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Washington, D. C., made argument for U. S. A.

Before GIBSON, Chief Judge, and HEANEY, BRIGHT, ROSS, STEPHENSON, WEBSTER and HENLEY, Circuit Judges, en banc.

STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.

Three adjoining school districts appeal from an order of the United States District Court1 directing that two of them, Berkeley and Kinloch, be annexed to the third, Ferguson-Florissant School District. The purpose of the consolidation is to achieve a meaningful desegregation of Kinloch, a racially segregated and inadequately funded school district which has been established and maintained by state action in...

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